Sleaford railway station

Infobox UK station


name = Sleaford
manager = East Midlands Trains
code = SLR
locale = Sleaford
borough = North Kesteven, Lincolnshire
usage0405 = 0.313
usage0506 = 0.322
usage0607 = 0.340
platforms=3

Sleaford railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, England; the other station being Rauceby railway station. The station is 34 km (21¼ miles) south of Lincoln Central.

Sleaford is the last remaining market town in Lincolnshire to be served by both North-South and East-West lines.

ervices

The main frequency is outlined below:

* 1tph Skegness (63mins)
* 1tp2h Nottingham (Fast) (45min)
* 1tp2h Nottingham (Slow) (70min)On Sundays there are 4 trains to Skegness and 5 to Nottingham

* 1tph (generally) Peterborough (25min)
* 1tph (generally) Lincoln (30min), with four trains per day extended to Doncaster (1hr20).There are no Sunday services on this route.

History

Overview

The first railway in Sleaford was the Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway which opened from Barkston Junction, north of Grantham on the Great Northern Railway main line on 16 June 1857 and on to Boston on 13 April 1859. This railway became part of the GNR in 1864. [A regional history of the railways of Great Britain. Volume 9. The East Midlands.]

This was followed by the GNR line from Bourne which opened on 2 January 1872.

Next came the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway which opened from Spalding through Sleaford to Ruskington on 6 March 1882, and from there to Lincoln on 1 August of the same year.

Finally the branch line to RAF Cranwell, then known as RAF Daedalus, opened in 1917. [http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/cranwell.html]

Passenger services on the Bourne branch ceased on 22 September 1930, although the line remained open between Billingborough and Bourne for goods until 1964. The Cranwell branch closed in 1956.

The Grantham to Boston and Spalding to Lincoln lines remain open.

ummary of Former Services

Sample Train Timetable for July 1922

The table below shows the train departures from Sleaford on weekdays in July 1922. [Bradshaw's General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide, July 1922]

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